United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 17
Chap. XVII.—An Act for the final adjustment of claims to lands in the state of Louisiana.[1]
Valid claims to be presented to register and receiver within two years.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person or persons having claims to lands in the state of Louisiana, whose claims have been recognised by former laws as valid, but which have not heretofore been confirmed to the grantees or their legal representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to present their claims to the register and receiver of the land office in which the land may lie, within two years from the passage of this act, together with the written and other testimony in support of the same, and it shall be the duty of the register and receiver to record in a book to be kept by them for that purpose, the notice of every claim so preferred, together with the evidence in support of the same; and the said register and receiver are hereby further authorized to receive any evidence for and on behalf of other individuals who may resist the confirmation of any such claim either on their own behalf, or that of the United States, and cause to be taken any evidence which shall be deemed necessary and proper by them to have such claim properly and justly settled, and to have the same likewise recorded in said book, for which service, in recording the applicant’s title-papers and evidence, they shall be entitled to receive from said applicant at the rate of twenty-five cents for every hundred words.
Report of the claims, with testimony and opinions on validity of each, to be made, and laid before Congress.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the registers and receivers of the land offices, at or before the beginning of each session of Congress thereafter, to make to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of the claims which may have been presented before them, together with the testimony, accompanied by their opinions of the validity of each claim, and such other information respecting them as may be in their possession, which said report shall, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be laid before Congress as soon as practicable, with the opinion of the commissioner of the general land office, touching the validity of the respective claims.
Approved, February 6, 1835.
- ↑ Notes of the acts relating to the adjustment of land claims in Louisiana, vol. iii. 528.